Smart key card
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorDolapo O. Kukoyi
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Abstract
A key card device may include a memory device storing a digital signature for activating a lock, an input device, an output device, and a wireless transceiver. The key card device may further include logic configured to receive input via the input device; generate a first message based on the received input; wirelessly transmit the generated message to facility management system associated with the lock; receive a second message from the facility management system; generate output based on the received second message; and provide the generated output to the output device.
Claims20
A key card device comprising:
- a memory device storing a digital signature for activating a lock;
- an input device;
- an output device;
- a wireless transceiver;
- and
- logic configured to:
- receive input via the input device;
- generate a first message based on the received input;
- wirelessly transmit the generated message to facility management system associated with the lock;
- receive a second message from the facility management system;
- generate output based on the received second message;
- and
- provide the generated output to the output device.
A key card device comprising:
- a memory device storing a digital signature for controlling at least one access mechanism;
- a wireless transceiver;
- and
- logic configured to:
- establish an authorization policy with a mobile communication device;
- receive a request from the mobile communication device to authorize a user request via the wireless transceiver;
- determine whether the key card device is activated;
- determine whether the received request satisfies the established authorization policy;
- and
- authorize the received request via the wireless transceiver, in response to determining that the key card device is activated and in response to determining that the received request satisfies the established authorization procedure.
A method, performed by a mobile communication device, the method comprising:
- installing, by the mobile communication device, a key card application associated with a key card device;
- receiving, by the mobile communication device, a user request via a user interface associated with the key card application;
- sending, by the mobile communication device, an authorization request to the key card device to authorize the received user request;
- receiving, by the mobile communication device, an authorization message from the key card device;
- and
- processing, by the mobile communication device, the user request in response to receiving the authorization message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.